Portal:Environment/Selected quote

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Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Bill Clinton
The science is clear and compelling. We humans are changing the global climate.
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Kofi Annan, previous Secretary-General of the United Nations
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.
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Franklin Roosevelt
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The supreme reality of our time is...the vulnerability of our planet
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Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it 'Nature'.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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Mother Teresa
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
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Theodore Roosevelt
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
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Margaret Thatcher
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
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Elizabeth I of England
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
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Ronald Reagan
Cars don't cause pollution, trees do.
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Were we and the rest of the back-boned animals to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well.
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
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[edit] Nominations

Feel free to add Environment quotes to the above list. Other quotes may be nominated here.